STATE WATCH: Tale of two towns

They’re about the same size. Trenton, population 85,044. Hamilton, population 88,666.

About the same percentage in each town work for government. Trenton, 23 percent. Hamilton just a tad over that figure.

But thereafter the data diverge sharply. Cross the street from one of these neighoring muncipalities into the other and you’re in contrasting economic and sociological turf, figuratively miles away from where you started.

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With the recent recession and incremental recovery widening income gaps, Census numbers paint a stark contrast growing more so: